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decorated with berries on the cliffs at Pleinmont. Babington 

 gives the species as growing there on the authority of Mr. W. 

 C. Trevelyan, but no member of this Society had previously 

 detected it, and yet it has undoubtedly made there an annual 

 display which, one would have thought, could hardly have 

 escaped observation. 



I have also to add two plants to the Flora of Herm, viz., 

 Moenchia erecta and Veronica arvense. These were brought 

 me by the late Mr. W. Cumber on April 27th. 



Our indefatigable ex-President, Mr. E. Marquand, con- 

 tinues his researches in Alderney with most gratifying success. 

 He has forwarded the following particulars to be incorporated 

 with this year's Transactions : — 



" I am pleased to be able to report progress in the inves- 

 tigation of the Flora of Alderney. An important addition 

 has been made to the list of Flowering Plants published in 

 last year's Transactions, no less than 89 new species having 

 been found during the past twelve months ; so that at the 

 present time 503 Flowering Plants are catalogued for the 

 island. Out of this number 36 species, or 7 per cent, of the 

 total, are unknown in Guernsey. The most interesting species 

 discovered this year is a Sea Lavender ( Statice lychnidiflora) 

 which is not only new to the Channel Islands, but also new to 

 the British Flora. To the Ferns and Fern-allies a few 

 additions have been made, the most noteworthy being the 

 Great Water Horsetail ( Equisetum maximum) a plant new to 

 these islands. 



" During the year I have given special attention to the 

 cryptogamic vegetation of Alderney, about which practically 

 nothing was known, and the results are gratifying. A list of 

 93 Mosses has been compiled, which is about two-thirds of 

 the number of Guernsey species, though nine of them are not 

 recorded for the larger island. Among these there is a great 

 prize, — Bartramia stricta, a moss confined in the British Isles 

 to one small spot in Wales. There is plenty of it in Alderney 

 on one part of the cliffs. Of Hepaticas 21 species have been 

 found, as well as 115 Lichens and 109 Fungi. During the 

 summer and autumn my wife and I devoted some time to sea- 

 weed collecting, and were so fortunate as to discover 156 

 species, some of them forms of great interest and rarity. 



" The total number of cryptogamic plants now catalogued 

 for Alderney, with notes on distribution and comparative 

 frequency, amounts to a little over 500 species, and of these 

 again 7 per cent, have not hitherto been detected in Guern- 

 sey. In every section of the flora Alderney differs from the 



